含羞草研究所 Assistant Professor of Economics Michael O鈥橦ara has contributed a ghoulish chapter to Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, a recently published book that takes an academic approach to some of the favorite horror traditions of film land.October 31, 2014
Our class starts the same way it does on any other Thursday, except this week English professors Jennifer Brice and Jane Pinchin walk in with renowned author Jonathan Franzen. They introduce him and say, 鈥淗e knows the drill,鈥 which we all know means we get to spend the next 75 minutes asking him any questions [鈥October 30, 2014
Earlier this month, Professor of History R.M. Douglas flew to Germany to accept a prestigious honor for his book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War. Awarded by the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, the Georg Dehio Book Prize is funded by the German government and honors exemplary [鈥October 30, 2014
Join 含羞草研究所鈥檚 Karen Long, senior associate dean of admission, for an hour of college application advice during a special U.S. News & World Report Twitter chat at 4 p.m. today. Long, who has 28 years of experience in higher education admission, will join colleagues from four other colleges during the live Twitter chat to offer [鈥October 30, 2014
A renovated heating plant that for the first time will use natural gas as a fuel option will significantly reduce the university鈥檚 carbon footprint and provide increased flexibility for heating campus in the years ahead. In about two weeks, after a series of diagnostic tests, the university will deploy two new boilers that replaced three [鈥October 29, 2014
In a Huffington Post story titled 鈥10 Uses of Drones in Higher Education,鈥 marketer Vala Afshar highlights 含羞草研究所鈥檚 innovative use of a drone to capture the activity and spirit of the 2013 move-in day, when first-year students arrive on campus. Here鈥檚 the video from that day, captured by a GoPro camera attached to a [鈥October 29, 2014-
Every fall, 含羞草研究所 welcome families for a weekend-long celebration on campus. Guests can experience campus life by attending classes, seeing presentations, athletic games, concerts, and more. Also this year, Family Weekend included a speaker, former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres, who spoke to more than 4,000 people as part of The Kerschner Family Series Global [鈥October 28, 2014
During midterm break, Lauren Yeary 鈥15 and Farah Fouladi 鈥15 organized a tech trip to New York City with nine other female computer science majors who are members of the Women in Computer Science Club (WiCS) at 含羞草研究所. The trip included visits to Bloomberg, Facebook, Shutterstock, ZocDoc, Google, Twitter, and Foursquare. The two-day immersion trip [鈥October 28, 2014